Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jean Louise Fiftal Cheshire, Conn...
...French underworld. Around the time of the death of his wife, who drowned in a bathtub last March, De Vathaire took up with a nightclub hostess, the estranged wife of a man wanted by the Paris police. A friend of hers introduced the $60,000-a-year accountant to Jean Kay, a flamboyant adventurer best known for his aborted 1971 hijacking of a Pakistan Airlines plane supposedly for the purpose of sending food to Bangladesh. He is also a mercenary who has fought in Biafra, Yemen, Angola and Nigeria...
...title role is written for an almost extinct species, the coloratura contralto. La Scala has such a rara avis in Lucia Valentini Terrani. She really has too hefty a look for an ideal Cinderella, but her voice was lusciously bronze and agile. The production is by France's Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; within a delightful children's cutout house, he manipulates his characters like a swinging Coppelius. How, for example, Soprano Margherita Guglielmi (Half Sister Clorinda) can make her hoopskirt behave like a Hula-Hoop and still sing is her secret and Ponnelle's. But it is immense...
TUFTS UNIVERSITY (6,500 students; Medford, Mass.). For French-born Jean Mayer, 56, an internationally known nutrition expert, the presidency of Tufts is but a single line in a seven-page single-spaced curriculum vitae that includes medals for his role in the World War II French Resistance, appointments to numerous presidential commissions and more than a dozen academic posts. Nonetheless, Mayer plans to devote his full energies to Tufts. He hopes to open New England's first school of veterinary medicine there, and in Tufts' graduate schools to emphasize those programs "where jobs will be waiting...
Meanwhile, the family is in some distress: Ludovic's wife threatens suicide; Marthe's husband, jealous, even desists from his own love affairs to bring her to heel. Although Director Jean-Charles Tacchella manages some telling glimpses of family life, Cousin, Cousine becomes a sort of bourgeois anti-bourgeois parody. At its worst moments the movie looks like a musical without songs. Characters glide about, acting as if they are about to burst into song...